The salary for the new head of the Government’s housing activation office will not be “anywhere near” the €430,000 that had been mooted for the position prior to a process to fill it collapsing this week, Fianna Fáil has said. The party’s housing spokesman, Cork South Central TD Seamus McGrath, said the figure of €430,000 was “excessive”. He said State agencies which the new office would interact with did have such powers. She said the new office set up by the Government has no powers sufficient to address the scale of the challenge. Mr Browne, it is understood, has been presented with a paper of options about what to do next drafted by the Housing Agency.

Source: The Irish Times May 05, 2025 09:10 UTC